Beschreibungen

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: American Exceptionalism and the Great Strike of 1877 Chapter 1: Artisans in the New Republic, 1787–1825 The Artisan Workplace The Political Economy of Early America The Early Transformation of the Workplace Rural Manufactures The Economy of Seaport Cities Manual Labor In and Out of the City Economic Change and the Demise of the Artisan Order Celebrating the New Era Chapter 2: Labor in the Age of Jackson, 1825–1843 The Geography of Industrialization Cultural Response to Industrialization Holding Onto the Familiar Religion, the Revivalists, and the New Work Ethic Radical Resistance to the New Industrial Order Chapter 3: The Industrial Worker in Free Labor America Lynn as a Microcosm Not Just Lynn Labor Reform and the Remaking of American Society Immigrant Workers Confront Nativism Black Workers in a White World Trade Unions on the Move in the 1850s Chapter 4: From the Civil War to the Panic of 1873 Labor and the War The “Great Lockout” of 1866 “Eight Hours for Labor, Eight for Recreation, and Eight for Rest” Building a National Organization Epilogue: A Tradition of Labor Protest Persists Bibliographical Essay Index

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